Research

Research lineages

Four connected programs spanning representation, cognition, perception, planning, and human–robot interaction.

Cognitive Architectures & ADAPT

ADAPT integrates symbolic cognition, Robot Schemas, concurrent sensorimotor processes, active perception, learning, and predictive internal representations for embodied intelligence.

Mental Models, World Models & Active Perception

A long-running research line in which robots maintain predictive internal models, generate expected observations, direct perception toward informative discrepancies, and use simulation to plan.

Representation, Abstraction & Hierarchical Planning

Research on task-preserving abstraction, representation reformulation, metalevel reasoning, and learned hierarchical structure for more efficient planning.